This Unlucky Ethereum Investor Lost Nearly $150,000 Due to Slippages and Rugpulls
Large crypto investors often give off the impression of being highly experienced blockchain users or traders, but sometimes even they make mistakes that lead to a significant loss of funds. This investor has just spent 42 Ethereums, buying almost $0 worth of tokens 10 days after being rugged for 3 ETH.
The 3 ETH carpet
The first misfortune experienced by this user was related to the carpet pull made by a small token posing as the famous Shiba Inu memetoken ShibTzu Inu. The small token had less than 1,000 holders.
Since Jan. 5, the token has fallen from $0.00000741 to $0.0000008509 in less than 10 days, indicating that the token was most likely rugpulled by developers or large holders, which resulted in the loss of a huge chunk of the funds of users that have chosen to invest in the small token.
Lose 42 ETH due to slippage
Although 3 ETH is not the largest sum to lose in the market, a larger loss appeared on this user’s wallet 10 days after experiencing the rugpull.
Reportedly, anonymous investors were trying to purchase “WTF” tokens tied to the fee tracking service on the Ethereum blockchain. Unfortunately for investors, the token lost more than 20% of its value right after the first listings.
But the investor did not experience a 20% drop due to a slippage that cost him 42 ETH. Slippage in both centralized and decentralized markets appears due to a lack of liquidity, which causes the price of an asset to rise or fall until the market makers recover the balance of the order book.
The undisclosed investor, unfortunately, failed to check the amount he or she was sending to the contract address and lost 42 ETH due to a market and network issue.
